Power theft
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Electricity theft impacts utilities by lacking funds to operate, lacking exposure to new technologies, and enabling corruption. It occurs when illegal consumers steal directly from lines or legal customers, or when legal customers tamper with or bypass meters. Technical solutions include electronic tamper detection meters, pre-payment meters, plastic meter encasements, automatic meter reading systems, and anti-theft cables. If successful in avoiding power theft, there will be less scarcity of power utilization.
Power theft
- 1. POWER THEFT
- 2. IMPACT OF ELECTRICITY THEFT Lack of funds to operate and to manage the facilities Lack of exposure to new technologies Corruption practices Reduced overall economic productivity
- 3. WHEN THEFT OCCURS An illegal consumer steals directly from the distribution lines or from another legal customer A legal customer steals either bypassing the meter or tampering with the meter to make it read less or no consumption.
- 5. ILLEGAL WIRING Circuit wire is disconnected/broken from circuit terminal block Fishing pole connections
- 6. TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS Electronic Tamper Detection Meters automatic detection of: Meter Tamper Meter Bypass Meter Disconnection
- 7. Pre-Payment Meters 1. Credit added to the meter on a keypad. 2. Credit is purchased on a rechargeable token or a card and entered into the meter with disconnection ability.
- 8. PLASTIC METER ENCASEMENTS Hard plastic encasements are a type of a meter seal. These transparent plastic covers serve as a warning and therefore reduce electricity theft
- 9. AUTOMATIC METER READING (AMR) SYSTEMS AMR is a system where power and telecommunication infrastructures work together
- 10. ANTI-THEFT CABLE Coaxial (or Concentric) cables Plastic layer
- 11. CONCLUSION If we are succeeded in avoiding the power theft there will be less scarcity for power utilisation